THE THIRD WAVE - Festival de Cannes

Mario Grigorov - Composer
Son of a concert pianist and trumpeter, Mario began his western
classical training at the Sophia Conservatorium at the age of
five. his family relocated to Teheran, Iran where his father
performed in the Shah's symphony orchestra. For the next six years
Grigorov continued his training in western classical music while
absorbing the rich sounds of the Persian culture around him.
While playing the keyboard in a music store in Los Angeles, He was
signed on the spot to a record deal by Warner Brothers Records' A
& R executive Bob James. The Warner signing led to the release of
“Rhymes with Orange” and the number four Billboard Magazine
charter “Aria.” Prior to Los Angeles, Grigorov also began his
exploration of classical music through the medium of film scores
in Australia where he would do the original scoring for over
thirty films including. He went on to score Edge City, The Life
Jacket is Under Your Seat, Razor's Edge, Here, 29 Palms and
Shadowboxer.
Jaron Lanier - Composer
Lanier has been active in the world of new "classical" music since
the late seventies. He is a pianist and a specialist in unusual
musical instruments, especially the wind and string instruments of
Asia. He maintains one of the largest and most varied collections
of actively played rare instruments in the world and has performed
with artists as diverse as Philip Glass, Ornette Coleman, George
Clinton, Vernon Reid, Terry Riley, Duncan Sheik, Pauline Oliveros
and Stanley Jordan. Current recording projects include his
"acoustic techno" duet with Sean Lennon and an album of duets with
flautist Robert Dick.
Lanier's work with Asian instruments can be heard extensively on
the soundtrack to Three Seasons (1999), which was the first film
ever to win both the Audience and Grand Jury awards at the
Sundance Film Festival. A pioneer in the use of Virtual Reality in
musical stage performance with his band Chromatophoria, he has
toured around the world as a headline act in venues such as the
Montreux Jazz Festival.
Morgan Spurlock - Executive Producer
Morgan Spurlock is the writer/producer/director of the Academy
Award nominated film Super Size Me. The feature length
documentary film, Spurlock’s first, was named to more than 35 “Top
Ten” lists in 2004 and is currently the 8th highest-grossing
documentary of all time. The film was also awarded the inaugural
Writers Guild of America Documentary Screenplay Award, and the
Best Director Prizes at the Sundance and Edinburgh Film